Joshy vs Chipotle!!!!!

Challenge: 2 Chipotle burritos in 15 minutes

Who: Baby Joshy Dusel Cakes Man Angel VS 2 Chicken Burritos with the works.

Westside Stories: LIGHTING Loves!!!!

Been searching lotsa sites for lights for all my rooms. Here are some of the final contenders...of course I haven't really thought about "budget" yet, so.....

Design Within Reach

West Elm



Tom Dixon...totally drool worthy....



Some Amazing Sites!!!
http://www.lbclighting.com
http://www.kartell.com/
http://www.ylighting.com/
http://www.tomdixon.net
http://www.skinflintdesign.co.uk
http://www.bestlite.com/

Westside Stories: WOE is me...kinda

Highlights of the past few weeks:
• Met with Architect and Builder and finalized floor plan!! (See above)
• Started reading up on LEED and it is so uber comprehensive, I am not sure I'll ever know if I am getting things done right.
• Moved all my personal belongings into Aaron's house (huge help!!!!)
• Lowered my house price for the 2nd time...getting a little nervous, but my realtor is awesome.
• Buried a St. Joseph statue in my backyard, only to find out there is already a statue from the owners before me!!
• Started exploring flooring, kitchen, lighting and landscaping ideas. SOOOO many choices. More to come on those!!
• Found these amazing reclaimed factory lights for my kitchen, but they SOLD!! Boo! The search continues.

• Started searching out roommate situations on Craigslist...pretty sure I am in for an adventure for 18 months.
• Found out my neighbors are going to have giant houses, not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing yet.
• Been spending several hours a week at Roasterie, Javanaut and Broadway cafe for house showings. Pretty much homeless at this point.
• Had a minor panic attack in Wilson Lighting. The realization I will have to pick out door knobs and handles and light switches and floor stains and tile colors and ceiling heights and stairs and sinks and everything....am back to being excited though.

Westside Stories: HOUSE Listing

http://www.postlets.com/res/2327449

3.5 Amazing reasons you should buy my house:

1. It is in fabulous Brooksideshire, in the southern moors of Kansas City.
2. My Carport is outta this world.
2.5 The garden gnomes stay. Even the one with mooning butt.
3. Cute as a button, people. CUTE. AS. A. BUTTON.

Westside Stories: OPERATION Sell my life

Had a giant garage sale this past weekend, May 30-31, and sold everything that I don't need to survive for the next year...well, mostly. After hours of up and down stairs, dragging stuff outside, skin burning, pricing, drinking, wheelin and dealin, sweatin, and clowning around (see below), I sold massive amounts of stuff for a few dollas that are going in my "Ridicously expensive couch" fund.

Here are some pics and a movie of Joshy doing what Joshy does best!

SOFTEEEEEEEEE!

Live from Crosstown Station with a cover of the Yard Birds, For Your Love!

With special guests: crazy whacked out dancer couple!!!!

(sorry for the shakiness, was trying to balance around the previously mentioned whacked out dancer couple)
(Also sorry for the video being squished. blogger just seemed to do it, and I can't make it normal again.)

Just another Saturday night in KCMO...

This was one of the acts at the (PG-13 Rated) Donkey Show at Crosstown Station last Saturday. So cool that there are Kansas Citians cooling it up for all to see.

Westside Stories: INTRO

May 1, 2009: Ok, here I go...

Just closed on a plot of land, 37 x 126.5 feet to be exact, on the Westside in KCMO!! Been dying to be a part of this hood for years and years and days! Yep, that amazing pile of dead sticks and trees that butts up to a half burned down garage, is mine....almost all mine...in several more payments of thousands of dollars. :) Couldn't be more prouder or exciteder. Now to sell my house so I can get this party started!

Over the next 15+ months, I will be tracking my adventures in building green (LEED certified) with a mid-century modern twist, on a really tiny budget, while living bare bones style in a studio apt!! My architect and builder and subs, who I will be sure to introduce you to, are Westsiders themselves all trying to adapt greener lives. I will post lots of links and ups and downs and advice and questions as this all unfolds...so stay tuned!!

Please to Enjoy April: Covers

please to enjoy = 50% new + 50% new to me + 50% songs from back in the day + 50% songs that don't quite fit

Link to file:
https://download.yousendit.com/U0d4eVdncG9GOFRIRGc9PQ

1. Digital Love (Daft Punk) - Alphabeat
2. Careless Whisper (Wham) - Ben Folds
3. Thriller (Michael Jackson) - Ben Gibbard
4. Love And Happiness (Al Green) - Big Youth
5. You Give Me Fever (Peggy Lee) - The Cramps
6. Heart It Races (Architecture in Helsinki) - Dr. Dog
7. Boyz in the Hood - Dynamite Hack
8. Independant Woman (Destiny's Child) - Elbow
9. Borderline (Madonna) - The Flaming Lips
10. Black Bird (Beatles) - Foo Fighters
11. I'm Into Something Good (Herman's Hermits) - Jeff Tweedy
12. Wild Horses (Rolling Stones) - Jewel
13. Hurt (NIN) - Johnny Cash
14. I'm Not Gonna Teach... (Black Kids) - Kate Nash
15. Black Betty (Ram Jam) - Nick Cave
16. Just (Radiohead) - Nickel Creek
17. Friday Night Saturday Morning (The Specials) - Nouvelle Vague
18. Fade Into You (Mazzy Star) - Pedro The Lion
19. Against All Odds (Phil Collins) - The Postal Service
20. I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones) - Rhett Miller
21. Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
22. toxic (Britney Spears) - tristan prettyman
23. Patience (Take That) - The Wombats

Please to Enjoy 73

please to enjoy = 50% new + 50% new to me + 50% songs from back in the day + 50% songs that don't quite fit

So, I guess the only posts I can manage these days...in between facebook and twitter updates, are musicy. Ah well....that just gives my dad more time to hate new things that I can add to the ongoing list.

Link to file:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/682918658/3abb2c116d130b4cd4384e6dcf02ce12

1. Beard Of Bees - Clem Snide
2. Bows In Your Arms - The Young Republic
3. Cello Song - The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
4. The Crook of My Good Arm - Pale Young Gentlemen
5. Days and Days - Fantastic Plastic Machine (feat. Coralie Clément)
6. Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest
7. Erase The Lines - The Whispertown 2000
8. Forest City - Newspapers
9. Gold Guns Girls - Metric
10. Hysteric (Acoustic) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Is This Sound Okay? - Coconut Records
12. North By North - Faded Paper Figures
13. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh - Say Hi
14. Poke - Frightened Rabbit
15. Real Desire - Dan Auerbach
16. Remind Me - Röyksopp
17. Rivers, Veins, and Roots - Mimicking Birds
18. The State I Am In - Belle & Sebastian
19. Strictly Game - Harlem Shakes
20. Tightrope - Yeasayer
21. Train Song - Feist + Ben Gibbard
22. The Will to Death - John Frusciante

Please to Enjoy: March - Sexy Time

please to enjoy = 50% new + 50% new to me + 50% songs from back in the day + 50% songs that don't quite fit

Link to file:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/670816141/47abca42bfc181703db64639ae2ae581

1. My Little Heart - The Postmarks
2. Gimme Some Lovin' - G Love and Special Sauce
3. some sugar - Nina Simone
4. Fuck her sweetly - Tenacious D
5. Right for Me - Justin Timberlake
6. Black/White - The Raveonettes
7. Wrestlers - Hot Chip
8. Bonnie And Clyde - Jay-Z
9. U.R.A. Fever - The Kills
10. #1 Crush - Garbage
11. The Operation - Charlotte Gainsbourg
12. Sunshower (acoustic) - Chris Cornell
13. Playground Love (Cover Air) - Phoenix
14. Heartbeats - Jose González
15. Daydreamin' (feat. Jill Scott) - Lupe Fiasco
16. The Prowl - Dan Auerbach
17. The First Taste - Fiona Apple
18. Fade into You - Mazzy Star
19. Give me a Reason to Love You - Massive Attack
20. Post-War - M. Ward

vocab upgrade: Blue Beard by Vonnegut

So, in an attempt to biggen my brain, I have been moving on down my reading list, started a few years ago. Here are some fancy words I came across that I didn't know...and the photos that popped up in flickr when I searched with my new fancy word. Sort of magical really....

Blue Beard by Kurt Vonnegut:

pal⋅pate

1  verb (used with object), -pat⋅ed, -pat⋅ing. to examine by touch, esp. for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.

con⋅cu⋅pis⋅cent

–adjective

1.	lustful or sensual.

2.	eagerly desirous.

a⋅lac⋅ri⋅ty

–noun

1.	cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.

2.	liveliness; briskness.

ob⋅se⋅quy

–noun, plural -quies.
1. Usually, obsequies. a funeral rite or ceremony.

Please to Enjoy: 72

please to enjoy = 50% new + 50% new to me + 50% songs from back in the day + 50% songs that don't quite fit

Link to file:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/658576660/d428f465b90a8f1c9d434efcb8df7a5c

Please to Enjoy 72:

1. Still Here - Girl Talk
2. Birds Fly Away - Theresa Andersson
3. Float - Sissy Wish
4. Last Words - The Real Tuesday Weld
5. Hiding On the Staircase - New Young Pony Club
6. No One’s Better Sake - Little Joy
7. Photobooth - Friendly Fires
8. Don't Give A Damn - Chairlift
9. Scared - Albert Hammond Jr.
10. Saturdays [Reprise] - Cut Copy
11. Fuck Was I - Jenny Owen Youngs
12. tonight+you+belong+to+me - ?
13. The Dusty Foot Philosopher - k'naan
14. Love is a shotgun - The Quiet Company
15. Oh, La - Ra Ra Riot
16. Fall of the American Empire - State Radio
17. When It Stings - Pictures Of Then
18. Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms - Frightened Rabbit
19. A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix) - Metronomy
20. Be So Happy - Heartless Bastards
21. Microphone - Coconut Records

Please to Enjoy: January - Favs

please to enjoy = 50% new + 50% new to me + 50% songs from back in the day + 50% songs that don't quite fit

Link to file:

https://download.yousendit.com/Y2o5R0llUzczMWtLSkE9PQ

Please to Enjoy: January - Favorites

1. I Want It All - Warren G
2. Being Bad Feels Pretty Good - Does It Offend You Yeah?
3. We Danced Together (SebastiAn Remix) - The Rakes
4. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
5. Please Please Please - Shout Out Louds
6. Big Poppa (Explicit Album Version) - The Notorious B.I.G.
7. Speed Law - Mos Def
8. Indonesian Love Song - Student Union
9. Oceans & Streams - The Black Keys
10. Hypnotise - The White Stripes
11. Idioteque - Radio Head
12. Eye - Smashing Pumpkins
13. Use Me - Bill Withers
14. don't stop believing - Journey
15. Good Song - Blur
16. Chinese Translation - M. Ward
17. Japanese Gum - Her Space Holiday
18. Young Liars - TV on the Radio
19. Uh - Fujiya & Miyagi
20. 519 Kids - MGMT

lines i like, out of context: "Downtown Owl," chuck klosterman

In no particular order:

1. Before electricity, nothing really happened. Every conversation would have been identical, unless somebody got cholera or was mauled by a badger.

2. Is there any feeling better that being in bed? What could possibly feel better than this? What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying somewhere soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself? (this is my EXACT thought process every morning!!)

3. Many of the laws in 1984 seemed practical. The world would be better off if everyone had to publicly validate why they were having sex with someone.

4. I always did the best that I could. Which was slightly better than almost okay, most of the time.

5. You just pour in a bunch of Everclear and vodka and schnapps and rum, and then you fill up the rest of the garbag can with Kool-Aid or Tang...That shit is liquid fucknuts.

6. That is when I started to understand that things were very, very different for me. My life had been prefucked.

7. It was like filling the nozzle of a hair dryer with dry ice, holding it one centimeter from oyur retina, and plugging it into an electrical socket. It was like being Helen Keller, in Greenland, naked.

8. So this was the situation. The situation was this: Mitch had to get inside his car, or inside somebody else's car, or inside anything can contained qualities of "insideness."

9. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot do.